KDDI Iret Wins Two Awards for Expanding Oracle Cloud Awareness and Technical Excellence

KDDI Iret Co., Ltd. (Headquarters: Minato-ku, Tokyo; President and CEO: Shugo Takagi; hereinafter "KDDI Iret"), an AI integrator accelerating the social implementation of AI by integrating cloud and multicloud deployment experience with cutting-edge AI technologies, announced on July 10, 2026 (Friday) at the "FY27 Oracle PartnerNetwork (OPN) Japan Partner Kickoff" that it has received two honors in the "Oracle Japan Award 2026": the "Best Media Awareness Partner of the Year" for contributing to the market awareness of Oracle Cloud, and the 4th place in the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI/PaaS) certification category of the "Oracle Certification Award 2026," which recognizes companies that have cultivated a large number of Oracle-certified professionals.

Left: Mr. Tomomitsu Misawa, Director, Executive Officer, and President, Oracle Corporation Japan Center: Mr. Shugo Takagi, President and CEO, KDDI Iret Co., Ltd. Right: Mr. Morikazu Sano, Senior Executive Officer, Alliance Division, Oracle Corporation Japan

Summary of Awards

Award Name

Achievement and Evaluation Criteria

Oracle Japan Award 2026

Best Media Awareness Partner of the Year

Selected for its outstanding contribution to expanding Oracle Cloud awareness and driving demand through high-volume, rapid dissemination of information. The company was recognized for promoting the value of Oracle Cloud through blogs, press releases, and case studies on OCI, as well as on-site reporting, speaking engagements, and exhibitions at "Oracle AI World."

Oracle Certification Award 2026

4th Place in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI/PaaS) Certification Category

Recognized for its proactive internal initiatives to train and certify OCI professionals.

Background of the Awards

In recent years, enterprise adoption of multicloud environments and generative AI has accelerated significantly. Amid this trend, Oracle Cloud has gained increasing attention due to its exceptional cost-performance ratio and powerful AI infrastructure. However, for enterprises to confidently proceed with migration or new adoption, they require partners with both "trusted information dissemination (awareness and education)" and "proven technical capabilities to build and operate systems reliably (expertise)."

KDDI Iret has consistently communicated the value of OCI to the market from an engineer’s perspective through rapid content output on its owned media platform "iret.media," on-site reporting at "Oracle AI World," and event participation. Simultaneously, the company has prioritized internal talent development, producing a significant number of OCI-certified professionals. This dual recognition confirms KDDI Iret as a leading partner that excels in both communication and technical capabilities.

Moving forward, KDDI Iret will continue to actively disseminate the latest information and use cases on Oracle Cloud and other cloud and AI technologies, while sustaining its commitment to talent development. The company aims to support customers in solving business challenges and creating value, contributing to enterprise AX advancement as a leading AI integrator.

KDDI Iret's OCI Achievements

KDDI Iret joined the Modern Oracle PartnerNetwork Program's Cloud Sell Track in October 2020 and has since accumulated extensive experience in OCI migration, including the full migration of large-scale core systems running on over 100 virtual and physical servers.

Since February 2025, the company has offered OCI services through its comprehensive cloud support service "cloudpack," providing Pay-As-You-Go billing代理, OCI implementation and migration support, and monitoring and managed operations services to broadly support customer OCI adoption.

In April 2026, KDDI Iret launched four new OCI Generative AI adoption support services covering development, data, security, and analytics. In May 2026, it introduced three services to support rapid recovery from ransomware attacks and three additional services to accelerate OCI adoption.

【Company Overview: KDDI Iret Co., Ltd.】

Company Name: KDDI Iret Co., Ltd. https://www.iret.co.jp/ Founded: October 2003 Headquarters: Toranomon Hills Business Tower 29F, 1-17-1 Toranomon, Minato-ku, Tokyo President and CEO: Shugo Takagi Capital: 70 million yen Major Shareholder: KDDI Corporation Business Activities:

- Accelerating the social implementation of AI through AI integration

- Development and operation of cloud-based systems and smartphone applications, UI/UX design

- Cloud design, deployment, operations, and security support via "cloudpack"

- Support for generative AI adoption and AI-driven development through "gaipack"

- Cloud development support in collaboration with the KDDI Group

* "cloudpack" is a registered trademark of KDDI Iret Co., Ltd.

* Oracle, Java, MySQL, and NetSuite are registered trademarks of Oracle Corporation and its affiliates in the U.S. and other countries. NetSuite is the cloud company that pioneered the new era of cloud computing.